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  • From: Yadong Wang <>
  • To: Mark Foster <>
  • Cc: "" <>, Leonard Giuliano <>
  • Subject: Re: SAP storms
  • Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:48:26 -0700
  • Organization: University of Southern California

Today, we see 139609 kbps from 131.130.50.3. It is wrong, we have to block
131.130.50.3.

Group: 224.2.127.254, (SAP.MCAST.NET)

Source: 131.130.50.3 (printspare.astro.univie.ac.at)
Rate: 45093 pps/139609 kbps(1sec), 139609 kbps(last 10 secs), 19963
kbps(life avg)

Yadong Wang
Data Network Operations
University of Southern California

Mark Foster wrote:
as of Mar 19, 15:20 PDT, we're seeing some pretty big rates on the MIX from
multiple sources:

64.251.63.188 224.2.127.254 5120K
64.251.63.66 224.2.127.254 444K
132.236.117.51 224.2.127.254 509K
128.32.129.171 224.0.5.128 796K

this seems to be causing quite a bit of flapping on some peers.

-- Mark Foster
NASA Research & Engineering Network / CSC
NASA Ames Research Center

On 3/19/2010 12:44 PM, Leonard Giuliano wrote:

Anyone notice a large rate of SAP packets the last few days? Have seen spikes up to 20Mbps of SAP. Here's a packet from a flow seen during one of the spikes. Looks like the culprit is 131.252.176.85:



No. Time Source Destination Protocol Info
1 0.000000 131.252.176.85 224.2.127.254 SAP/SDP
Announcement (v1), with session description




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